MKIV is looking good
The arrival of the Canon 1D MKIV has meant a few days testing the camera on not so important shoots. Last night 26/02/10 the camera was put to work in earnest with a sports shoot under floodlight at The Willows, the home of Salford City Reds.
Malcolm Alker, Salford City Reds
Malcolm Alker, Salford City Reds
We were covering a Rugby League Superleague game between Salford and Bradford Bulls. Having used the MKIII I was a little aprenhesive as to how the MKIV would cope with the low light and action of the sport.
Left is a full shot of Malcolm Alker with a crop next to it iso 2000 1/320sec, f5.6 at 536mm
Initial test shots indicated that exposures were going to be difficult and even though the MKIV has high ISO values I was dubious to push it past 1600 although I did try
one or two shots at 2000.
As soon as the game kicked off I noticed a marked improvement in the autofocus of the MKIV over the MKIII. The autofucus wasn’t hunting the same and I was able to concentrate on the action rather than making sure the camera was focusing correctly. The images on the rear of the screen were much clearer and it was posssible to ascertain which were the ‘bad’ images from the good a lot quicker. On zooming into the images the amount of grain could be seen however this is not a problem as it was another improvement over previous models and I was quite happy to keep shooting at around 1600 – 2000 iso.